Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk beats Russian rival at Indian Wells Open quarter-finals

Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk (seeded 32) has defeated Russia’s Anastasia Potapova (33) in the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, California.

Source: Champion

Details: The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes and ended with a score of 6-0, 7-5. The Ukrainian served one volley, made four double faults, and used seven of ten break points.

This was the rivals' third meeting; the previous two were won by the Russian player: 6-1, 6-3 on hard court in Miami and 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4 on grass in Birmingham (both matches took place in 2023).

Having reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament for the first time in her career, Kostyuk will make her debut in the semi-finals, where she will face the winner of the Iga Świątek (the No. 1 seed) - Caroline Wozniacki (204) match.

In addition to Potapova, Marta defeated Japan’s Mai Hontama (seeded 120) 6-4, 6-2, overtook Czech player Marketa Vondrousova (7) when the latter withdrew, and defeated another Russian, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (6-4, 6-1).

Elina Svitolina (seeded 17) was defeated in the third round, losing to American Emma Navarro (23), who had previously beaten another Ukrainian, Lesia Tsurenko. Ukrainian players Daiana Yastremska and Anhelina Kalinina abruptly withdrew from the competition, with Yastremska unable to complete her match due to injury.

Marta Kostyuk played in the final of another Californian competition in San Diego in early March but lost to her British opponent, Katie Boulter (seeded 27).

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